Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$250,172

Total expenses

$564,515

Contributions and grants received

$239,438

Grants paid

$18,335

Program service revenue

$8,925

Investment income

$110

Other revenue

$1,699

Total assets, end of year

$590,104

Total liabilities, end of year

$26,217

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$563,887

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$497,507

Management and general expenses

$28,141

Fundraising expenses

$38,867

Program service expenses (Part III)

$497,507

Program services were 88.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• CORE PROGRAMMINGNJJN IS A DIVERSE ANTI-RACIST MOVEMENT-BUILDING ORGANIZATION MADE UP OF INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN 43 STATES WORKING TO DECONSTRUCT HARMFUL YOUTH LEGAL SYSTEMS THROUGH THREE CORE PROGRAM AREAS: ADVOCACY (STATE AND FEDERAL POLICY AND PUBLICATIONS), LEADERSHIP (YOUTH JUSTICE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE AND YOUNG LEADERS SUPPORTS, AND NETWORKING (WEBINARS, CALLS, AND CONFERENCES). ADVOCACY PROGRAM: THROUGH OUR ADVOCACY PROGRAM, NJJN'S COMMUNITY PASSED ADVANCES IN 30 STATES TO BETTER OUTCOMES FOR YOUTH ACROSS THE COUNTRY. TO FURTHER THESE EFFORTS, NJJN LED PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS ON THE NEED TO RAISE THE MINIMUM AGE OF YOUTH PROSECUTION AND HOSTED WORKING GROUPS TO ADDRESS NEGATIVE NARRATIVES ABOUT YOUTH. NJJN HOSTED 4 WEBINARS TO PROVIDE EDUCATION TO THE YOUTH JUSTICE FIELD AND PUBLIC IN THE AREAS ON SUBSTANTIVE YOUTH JUSTICE ISSUES. NJJN ALSO PUBLISHED 8 DOCUMENTS AND 2 TOOLKITS TO GUIDE ADVOCATES IN THEIR WORK. LEADERSHIP PROGRAM: NJJN'S CORE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM YOUTH JUSTICE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE PROVIDED ADVOCACY SKILL DEVELOPMENT, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION ON THE YOUTH LEGAL SYSTEM TO A GRADUATING COHORT OF 10 SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES AND WELCOMED 10 NEW SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES TO THE PROGRAM. NETWORKING PROGRAM: NJJN CONTINUED OUR NETWORKING PROGRAMMING BY HOSTING A VIRTUAL FORUM WITH ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN JULY. THIS EVENT HIGHLIGHTED NJJN'S REGIONAL LEADERS BY ELEVATING THE VOICES OF YOUTH AND FAMILY LEADERS TRANSFORMING THE YOUTH JUSTICE LANDSCAPE. EACH SESSION HAD APPROXIMATELY 40 REGISTRANTS AND 20 PARTICIPANTS, WITH TOTAL MEMBER PARTICIPATION NUMBERS AT 60.NJJN ALSO EXPANDED ITS ENGAGEMENT WITH YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING A UNIFIED FEDERAL AGENDA FOR TRANSFORMATION. NJJN WORKED WITH 12 YOUTH FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY OVER THE COURSE OF THREE MONTHS TO DEVELOP THEIR VISION OF YOUTH JUSTICE AND OUTLINE KEY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NATIONAL, STATE AND LOCAL CHANGES. THIS WORK CULMINATED IN THE CREATION OF A YOUTH ACTION AGENDA.

  Expenses $493,185 · Grants $18,335 · Revenue $8,925

• COVID-19 YOUTH DECARCERATION RESEARCH (JPI)IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE JUSTICE POLICY INSTITUTE, THE NATIONAL JUVENILE JUSTICE NETWORK (NJJN) PARTNERED TO CONDUCT RESEARCH TO DETERMINE WHICH SITES ACROSS THE COUNTRY SUCCESSFULLY REDUCED YOUTH DETENTION AND INCARCERATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. PARTNERING WITH SEVEN STATES, NJJN CONDUCTED FOCUS GROUPS WITH VARIOUS ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES TO DECARCERATE YOUTH FACILITIES. FUNDS FROM THIS PROJECT WERE USED TO STIPEND MEMBERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT IN CONDUCTING ON THE GROUND RESEARCH AS WELL AS PRODUCE BEST PRACTICE PUBLICATIONS.

  Expenses $4,322

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Assets distributed on this return

Schedule N, as filed: what the organization did with its assets when it liquidated or dissolved, or disposed of more than a quarter of them, and who received them. A recipient with an EIN is usually a successor organization; filers also list expenses such as legal fees here.

• No recipient named

  $476,275

  Disposition · PROGRAM SERVICES EXPENDITURES · Dec 31, 2022

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

18 October 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202332919349301403

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